How do tasks bring the world of work into classrooms?

Teachers can use tasks in a variety of ways to bring the world of work into the classroom. For example, they can use a work-based context for a science or mathematics task, which is often seen as motivating for students but does need to be authentic. However, it has the added benefit of raising students’ awareness of how important science and mathematics are in the world of work.

For this professional question there are three tools. The first two relate to five of the tasks in the Mascil repository, and the third provides guidance on the design of tasks.

Acknowledgement & Copyright

The content of the mascil toolkit was developed by the mascil team at the University of Nottingham, UK.

The development of the concept of the mascil toolkit was led by the University of Nottingham, UK in discussion with the Universities of Jaen (ES) and Utrecht (NL) and the Pädagogische Hochschule, Freiburg (DE).

The mascil project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 320 693